Workshop
Foundations in CFT for Psychosis - Level 1
3 hour workshop with Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland
About this workshop
This introductory workshop provides an accessible overview of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for psychosis. It is suitable for anyone interested in understanding distressing voices, paranoia, unusual beliefs, and other experiences associated with psychosis, including practitioners, peer support workers, experts by experience, family members, carers, students, and support staff.
Participants will be introduced to key principles of Compassion Focused Therapy, including how evolution has shaped the human brain with a natural bias towards threat detection and self-protection. The workshop explores how processes such as dissociation, vigilance to threat, shame, trauma, and social rank concerns can contribute to experiences such as voice-hearing and unusual beliefs.
Drawing on a compassion-focused understanding of psychosis, participants will learn how these experiences can often be understood as meaningful attempts to manage threat, distress, or difficult life experiences. The workshop introduces compassion-focused formulations of voice-hearing and unusual beliefs, with particular attention to their protective functions and their links to trauma, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
The training also introduces the concept of the compassionate self and explores how cultivating compassionate mind states can create a sense of safeness that supports recovery and wellbeing.
What you'll learn
Introduction to the application of CFT for psychosis
Key compassion focused psychoeducation and theory
Understanding functions of psyuchosis experiences
Cultivating compassionate self and compassionate brain states
Who this workshop is for
Experts by experience
Carers, family members, friends
Mental Health Practitioners
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FAQs
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If you find you are unable to attend this course, please email our admin team via hello@compassionatemind.co.uk as soon as possible. You will be given the option to transfer to another course (within 12 months). Refunds are available if cancellation occurs no less than one month before the start of the course, although we will consider exceptional circumstances.
All delegates signed up to the workshop will recieve joining links and instructions when they sign up for the event via Eventbrite. Any additional handouts will be sent to you as soon as they are recieved from the speaker. If you do not recieve a welcome email when you book, or have other queries, please email hello@compassionatemind.co.uk.
All attendees will received a certificate upon completion of the course. This will be emailed to you, so please ensure that your details are correct on registration.
Our staff will take a register on each day of the workshop and any non-attendees will not receive a certificate. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please get in touch at hello@compassionatemind.co.uk
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